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Why do I have to set permissions on phpThumb cache directory?

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Emmanuel Danan
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phpTumb (phpthumb.sourceforge.net) is a powerfull class used in FLEXIcontent for image processing. For performance purposes, I chose to use it external of the Joomla! framework (it avoids to load the entire framework each time you generates thumbnails).

For that reason phpTumb is not able to use the ftp layer and requires you to open (chmod 777) the following directory components/com_flexicontent/libraries/phpthumb/cache in order to allow it to write the created thumbnails in cache.

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+6 #1 Guest 2010-02-17 01:05

You can change the cache directory by hacking the phpThumb.config.php file. Around line 30 you can change it to the site's cache directory in a subdirectory. You'll just need to create the directory and set the permissions.

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